Eugene Lang Liberal Tech2007
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This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on introducing teaching with technology in liberal education. It discusses several topics, including the history and challenges of using technology in education, methods for aggregating and publishing online resources, facilitating online discussions, and utilizing multimedia tools for pedagogy. The goal is to explore various digital tools and strategies that can enhance student-centered learning while addressing the increasing amount of online information.
Eugene Lang Liberal Tech2007
- 1. Eugene Lang College November, 2007 NITLE workshop Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
- 2. Agenda for the day 0. Introductions and overview Resource aggregation Publishing to the web Discussion areas Multimedia pedagogy Next steps
- 3. First, liberal education Inherited models Artes liberales Skills Practice, yet theory Multiplicity Literacies Multiple Productive Media vs information
- 4. Different weavings from the cloth Pure learning for learning’s sake Student-centered pedagogy Preparation for democratic citizenship Institutional typology and heritage -Jo Ellen Parker, “What’s So “Liberal” About Higher Ed?” ( Academic Commons , 2006)
- 5. Digital, not analog? Differences, enhancements Repeatability, scrubbing, segmentation, transferability Iteration User’s schedule (Desire path, Vermont, 2006)
- 6. Further affordances Social software Triangulation Presence Performance History Temporality Synch versus asynch Two archival tendencies
- 7. Practical tendencies Timeshifts within the classroom Classroom vs. the rest of spacetime LazyWeb meets DIY Archival teaching for the professor (Middlebury College, January 2006)
- 8. Challenges What are the challenges to using technology for teaching and learning?
- 9. The relief of history Early modern information overload, 1685: “We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire…”
- 10. “… Unless we try to prevent this danger by separating those books which we must throw out or leave in oblivion from those which one should save and within the latter between what is useful and what is not.” -Adrien Baillet, Jugemens des sçavans sur les principaux ouvrages des auteurs (Paris, 1685)
- 11. Antecedents One response to too much information: the humble marginal annotation Glossators (Franciscus Accursius, Denis Godefroi) Then the Geneva Bible
- 12. Managing texts, readers (Early English Books Online)
- 13. Another response to overload Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie (1751-1772)
- 14. Another response to overload Cyclopedia (Ephraim Chambers, 1728) Encyclopedie (1751-1772) (Another precursor, lacking the technology: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae , 636)
- 15. I. Resource aggregation Eroding, but semiarchived ( http://archive.org ) Vast Growing (Bookstore in Fes, Morocco, 2007)
- 16. Requirements Search (classic, Web 2.0, media, social) Aggregation (bookmarks, del.icio.us, Scholar.com, H2O) Information literacy Social aggregation, or digital citizenship
- 17. Away from the wild Web e-reserves Databases (ARTSTOR) The oldest information profession (Denison Library, Claremont Colleges)
- 18. Using the Web to tame the Web Social bookmarking (del.icio.us) Demonstration Hands-on Aggregating Media Podcasts YouTube RSS Bloglines RSS feed from del.icio.us
- 19. II. Publishing to the web “ Web 1.0” Vast, semiarchived (archive.org) Enormous publication Needed: editor and host (Sir Tim Berners-Lee)
- 20. • Euclid’s Elements, Interactive Presentation. http://math.furman.edu/~jpoole/euclidselements/euclid.htm • Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/home.html • Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature. (WWI archive) http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/ • Visual Elements Periodic Table. http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/pertable_fla.htm
- 21. “ Web 2.0” Social software Microcontent Open Platforms
- 22. Web 2.0: blogs Public intellectual Research record Personal expression Collaborative blogs Scholarly discussion Formal and in- Emergent interest (Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College LMS conference, Reed College, 2005)
- 23. Web courseware (Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai) Class (not course) only Copyright shield (TEACH Act) Integration with e-reserves (Martin Dougiemas, via PeskyLibrary on Flickr)
- 24. III. Online Discussion History of online discussion Discussion boards, newsgroups, etc. Listservs (SF-LOVERS, 1979ff) Asynchronous vs. Synchronous IM Chat rooms Skype chat Virtual world, gaming chat
- 25. Question: what are your best practices for online discussion?
- 26. Web 2.0 discussion areas Blogs Posts Comments On-campus and off- (“Blog-based communities,” James Farmer, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/elifishtacos/90944651/ )
- 27. Wikis History That encyclopedia Two challenges Wikis not called wikis Modes of use Discussion Annotation Collaborative writing
- 28. IV. Multimedia pedagogy Why would you do such a thing? Learning styles Active engagement Changing population, literacy Long, long tradition
- 29. Images Visualization Compositions Presentation (ppt) Social (Flickr) (Storms on Jupiter, NASA New Horizons mission)
- 30. Audio Sound objects Social sound: podcasting Embedded sound (Web, video) Synchronous: VOIP (Aaron Prevots, French, Southwestern University)
- 31. Podcasting Pedagogies Profcasting Studentcasting Public intellectual Field work
- 32. Video Video objects Social video (Web) Synchronous (Video conference)
- 33. Digital cartography Google Maps GIS Web mapping, a/k/a virtual globes Synchronous? Watch Google Platforms? Cf Twittervision (Google Maps/Flickr mashup)
- 34. Multimedia Syntheses Presentation tools (PowerPoint, Keynote) Media: text, images, sound, video Demonstration and Hands-On Ease of use Danger: death by PowerPoint (cf Tufte)
- 35. Multimedia Synthesis VoiceThread Image Voice Social Demonstration Hands-On http://voicethread.com/
- 36. Multimedia syntheses Virtual worlds Virtual reality Social-emotional bandwidth
- 37. Multimedia syntheses Gaming Pedagogies (Gee, 2003ff) Literacy Compositions (Image from Scott Osterwall, MIT, from NERCOMP presentation http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=1227 )
- 38. And text!
- 39. And text! Web 2.0 Nearly every digital affordance Synchronous: chat, IM Utter comfort for most of us (previous slide: Ken Wark, GAM3R 7H30RY (2007) CommentPress implementation http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory/ )
- 40. V. Wrap-Up Small Groups Plan for how you can use one thing you’ve learned today Final Group Discussion
- 41. NITLE http://nitle.org Liberal Education Today http://b2e.nitle.org